Morning was a she-dragon of pale pink scales with a black crest and horns, hatched in the Vale at the very end of 130 AC from one of the three eggs of Syrax's last clutch that Lady Rhaena Targaryen, daughter of Daemon and Laena, had carried with her into the keeping of Lady Jeyne Arryn. Word of the hatching reached the greens as the new year began and dismayed them, for every dragon of theirs was dead, and Queen Alicent feared the smallfolk would read the birth as the gods' verdict. She was one of only four dragons alive when the Dance ended, and the only one still in Targaryen hands.
Rhaena brought her to King's Landing after Aegon II's death in 131 AC, where the crowds rejoiced and the boy king Aegon III paled and ordered the wretched creature out of his sight; for years the little dragon rode the city on Rhaena's shoulders like a stole. By 134 AC she had grown enough to lair in the ruins of the Dragonpit, and on the third day of the third moon of 135 AC Rhaena flew her for the first time, circling the city and ranging farther each day after, though the king would never come to see her. Rhaena took her to Dragonstone that year, where they were more welcome, and when the regents deflected her wish to join the royal progress of 136 AC the record of Morning ends; she died at some time before the last dragon in 153 AC, and no one recorded how.