Varys knew perfectly well what she'd done, and why she was avoiding Jon Snow. I'm sure he had agents in Stannis' camp when Shireen was burned. So he also knew Davos would gladly tie the noose himself - and Jon would probably let him. I couldn't see Daenerys taking kindly to her presence after hearing that she'd burned a child to death either. Being roasted by a dragon would strike her as poetic justice.
The implication is that Melisandre has one last task to perform before she dies. The thing she's been kept alive all this time to do. Whatever that is. Varys has always been somewhat vague about his background, very deliberately. I'm guessing that nothing he's actually said was untrue. But he's never gone into a lot of detail either. We may find out he became the head of a secret order (founded by the original Azor Ahai perhaps) that's been preserving ancient knowledge and traditions, keeping an eye on things, biding its time and waiting for this day. Hence the pervasive network of spies at his disposal.
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