I hope this story keeps going on for a long time. I like that a relatively primitive setting was chosen. If a girl became 200 feet tall in the present, she would very quickly be surrounded by the military and chaperoned off to a guarded location for study, and to be taken care for. Since it's the 1600's she is more invulnerable, but has to fend more for herself and become more wild. Justine is so big and powerful compared to the rest of humanity that even a simple bodily act like her taking a pee is like a mini apocalypse that results in the creation of a "large pond" from the perspective of a regular sized person. Even little things like that are apocalyptic to regular sized people. There's also the logistical needs of her huge body. On a daily basis, she knocks down hundreds of trees, has to drink huge quantities of the water supply, eat a good chunk of a herd of cattle, pee several times, and eventually empty her titanic bowels. She could in a short amount of time, drink away the local water supply, decimate the farming economy, and turn the local woods into a nearly treeless swamp. I like the attention paid to the logisitcs of her presence, and the slowly building dilemma it causes both for her and the rest of the people. It adds realism to the story. And since people spent more time outdoors back then for everyday needs and recreation (fishing, hunting, foraging) and she's 200 feet tall she's going to inevitably have people encounter her wherever she goes, even in the woods. Her presence will get harder and harder to ignore, and with 4 people in her digestive tract, Brad in her stomach, and the first 3 she swallowed alive in her colon, it's only a matter of time before she has to expel them out, and their half digested bodies are discovered. Confirming the population's worst fears about the mysterious giantess. She eats people alive and whole!

Justine seems to be actively making up excuses for herself to eat people. She decides to scare Brad because he stares at her while she's naked. She should be used to people seeing her naked by now, and since she's not going to get any clothes to fit her that's not going to change. And anyone would stare dumbstruck if they were going about another routine day of fishing and suddenly a 200 foot tall giantess walked up to where they were and squatted above them. This was unfair to Brad and Justine must know it. She toys with killing him because he resembles her father in appearance, once again not his fault. Then decides to eat him when she finds out he's an adulterer, giving him a trick question and goading the simpleton into giving the wrong answer, to justify killing him. Granted, he should have been thinking about the potential harm she could do his family but a terrified, confused, and panicked simpleton who had only been fishing a few minutes earlier may not be thinking straight. She didn't seem to know the guy personally so her acting as judge, jury, and executioner was unfair. Deep down she probably knows all this, but she probably just wanted to eat something she didn't have to chew. Since chewing means crunchy, unpleasant, and bad tasting. Eating Brad was a slippery slope on the moral threshold. Although everyone she's eaten so far have committed or have been perceived to committed adultery, and this seems to really set her off. Perhaps personal, or religious reasons for her.

Brad was probably still alive in her stomach when Justine took her long big drink of water at the river. It would be neat to see things from his perspective as Justine's stomach begins to fill up with water. And as he drowns inside her he realizes how small he is when her simply taking a drink is enough to kill him. Ironic since she discovered him by nearly peeing on him, expelling what she drank, and here he is, drowning inside her, in what she just drank.

Switzerland in 1673 would have been split into mostly rural Catholic Cantons and more developed Protestant Cantons, with the feuding superpowers of Bourbon France and Habsburg Germany just across the border. Much later in the story she could potentially play into the power politics of the time, with potential attempts to recruit, study, or use her.

Overall, a realistic story about a giantess trying to get by in a less developed and more rural time and setting, with fewer places to hide, is a great idea and concept for a story, and I hope that this story goes on for a long time.

Author's Response:

I have to say your feedback has been very helpful so I thank you for your input. The logistical challenges Justine faces along with the rest of the town will only increase as time goes on. Tough choices will arise that likely will take both her and the people of the town down path's much darker than anything they could encounter in a nightmare.