"I can't think of a better way to spend one's day off," Serena muses. It's so peaceful here. She's taken comfort in horses when humans have let her down – or simply disappeared – for the longest time. Here, it doesn't seem to be any different, although she does have George Jr. at home and he's yet to disappoint her.

Sometimes, though, he does overwhelm her. A doctor she spoke to at one of his checkups mentioned this was normal, and even more so with single mothers. She'd wanted to insist she wasn't a single mother, but the semantics didn't matter. Though Pemberton hasn't abandoned them, he's still not here, and she's raising her son alone. "I only just started coming here regularly. I'm actually working on becoming a trainer, if you can believe it."