River's suspected as much from the beginning, though she can't say she understands it. How she's here is even less clear to her than why.

"Maybe there is, maybe there isn't. But not as far as I'm aware." She's never bought into the idea, but then, being raised as she was, it's no surprise as to why. "What happened to me was less an afterlife and more...a suspension of death. He could mark it down as a victory, everyone lived, and carry on. As long as he wasn't there, he could believe I never died."

Of course life doesn't work that way, time doesn't work that way, but she's never entirely been able to hold it against him. She knows him too well, always loved him too much.

"I guess it's always possible some other version of me found her way to an afterlife, but I wouldn't count on it."