Chapter 147

In the chronicles, Stannis’s fortunes withered again and again. When he marched to face the Heir of the Dreadfort—the flayer’s whelp—before Winterfell’s walls, Shireen and her mother went with him.

On that road, under Melisandre’s spell, Stannis burned his own daughter alive—offered Princess Shireen to the Lord of Light.

While that gentle girl was bound upon the pyre, shrieking for her father to spare her, Stannis, captive to power, stood motionless. He had gone mad. He would spend all.