( there's one respect in which jenny and river are alike: neither of them has known, nor can really miss gallifrey. and that is where, to river, the comparison ends. though they're both unique in themselves, making them alone in the universe, river feels alone for so many other reasons. she's never had a home, never found something like that to connect to. whatever hole she didn't realise was there ended up being filled by the doctor. it's something that she recognises now, feeling his absence keenly when they're apart (more so now when he's so close and yet not here) but at least she knows that he's safe.

river nods at jenny's assessment, believing her right that there's likely each of his regenerations here. there isn't use in tracking them down but river knows that she will -- to make sure she knows where he is, that he is always, always safe, and on the occasional time for sentimentality. just to see him, to hope. to remember herself )

But we know that he's here. ( just not which version of him that they may meet if and when he woke up.

she folds the pictures away, closing her diary but not yet putting it away. she wants to do something for jenny, something that river hopes will help. so far she's told her more about herself, about what being gallifreyan and time lord is, but there's something else that river keenly knows )

I could tell you about him. It won't be much, not like having him here, but it doesn't seem like you got to know him before.