There are other worlds than these

There are other worlds than these expresses the possibility that ordinary reality is not the only reality. In the available scene, that possibility takes vivid form as a psychic vision and a message of return.

Meaning and Function

The expression points toward realities that exceed everyday perception. Here, the otherworldly is not presented as a separate place with rules explained; it arrives as a sudden transformation within a vision. The change makes the boundary between the familiar and the marvelous feel permeable.

Appearance in the Narrative

A girl who had seemed small appears as a young woman in a leather jerkin, with a dragon on her chest and a blue band holding back her hair. Her bicycle has become a white stallion, and both the horse’s eyes and the warrior’s eyes blaze. The transformation gives the vision the scale and force of another world rather than a simple recollection.

A parenthetical message then says that the addressee has returned, as Dan Torrance said they would. Its emphasis is on a prediction fulfilled: the return is recognized and affirmed inside the vision. The passage thus joins altered perception to a concrete assurance, making the extraordinary world a place where a promise can be kept.