Thank you, Elleth! I'm so happy you liked the story.

To me (well, this is my Geography talking partly, also) the Old Forest and the Downs are almost a character unto themselves, so it fell out very naturally as soon as I started writing that my narrator was so closely intertwined with her land.

I'm glad you pointed out the detail of the red belt. I find it really hard to picture Goldberry wearing red, so that was definitely meant to be an "it's about to get real up in here" type moment.

Thank you again for your prompt. =)