Nothing wrong with a long chapter, the more detail the better. A reflective chapter focused on those affected by Justine's actions and their surviving loved ones would have to be set a little bit in the past since Justine seems to be getting ready to take over the town herself. Probably set some time after the disappearances of some of the locals and the discovery of their bodies in Justine's waste in the woods, but before the start of this chapter.

Justine doesn't seem to know that the majority of the townspeople know about her cannibalism, even though the towns people have since discovered the bodies of those she swallowed in her waste, and this probably will cause her to underestimate just how scared the people are of her and how they have good reason to be scared. After all, they don't want to be in her next bowel movement. Mark himself seems to be a bit clueless about what the rest of the town already knows. Even after swallowing Marvin, Douglas's grandson, and pooping out the bodies of five people nearby, Justine seems to naively think that she and Douglas are on good terms, and that he can, and would be willing to help her with alchemy. Not that Douglas could help her anyway, since alchemy doesn't work anyway, and if it did he wouldn't be dying of what seems to be cancer, known as a "wasting disease" at the time. After that as of yet unnamed 13 year old girl in chapter 20 saw Justine expelling her waste in the woods, including her log with the 5 bodies in it, she no doubt went about alerting all the others in the out of town farming community, and now that out of town farming community also has proof of Justine's cannibalism too. Justine doesn't seem to know that her own digestive system reveals her misdeeds, and that if she swallows someone her butt will give away this secret. At her size her droppings are about the length of small houses and reveal exactly what, (and who) she has been eating. And considering her size, and this being an era when any country person could track much smaller creatures by what they left behind, there's no way for Justine to not leave behind logs without them being noticed, and with evidence, if she continues eating people. Justine doesn't seem to have thought about this. Although if she does make peace with a community of regular sized people they could very easily check what she has eaten to make sure she hasn't eaten people recently, maybe even make this a condition of her staying to give the people reassurance.

Some of the people affected in Justine's town would include: 1. The townspeople who would have to go through the gruesome and unpleasant task of digging the bodies out of Justine's waste. 2. The town doctor who would have to write a medical report based on the examination of the bodies of Justine's victims, with the knowledge that he's writing the first report on the aftermath of the whole consumption of living human's. 3. The grief and trauma of the victim's families who would have to identify the bodies, come to terms with their missing kin turning up dead, and their bad deaths and undignified disposal, they were swallowed alive and expelled with her literal shit, and how that would make them feel towards Justine. This would be the families of Brad, James, and his girlfriend. Justine's father's body would go unclaimed. 4. The families of the squashed watchmen struggling to make identifications. 5. The surviving watchman, the one who was swallowed and thrown up with John, struggling to come to terms. 6. John working towards summoning up the courage to ask Justine where he can retrieve his mother's body for burial. Knowing that if Justine didn't have any feelings for him he would be dead too and in the same log, and how that makes him feel about Justine. 7. The priest, or whoever is in charge, planning to rally a mob with torches, burning oils, and pitchforks, commoners couldn't afford much else, when Justine arrives. 8. The families of those still missing, the 3 watchmen and the hunter who Justine digested along with Francis, perhaps still holding up hope, sinking into grief and anger, or even working up the courage to ask Justine after she takes over the town to ask where they can retrieve the bodies.

People in the farming community outside of Justine's town would be affected too. The 13 year old girl who saw Justine expel the remains of those other 5 victims, has by now alerted that community to the giant log with the bodies in it and probably caused a panic there too. Douglas, who Justine tried to befriend would be hit hard with this information, with Marvin missing. His family would put 2 and 2 together and deduce (correctly) that Justine probably ate Marvin too. And while Douglas will probably try to convince himself that Justine wouldn't do that to him and his family, his family might blame him for naively bringing in a monster. Russel on the other hand would be feeling vindicated, and he and his family would be taking great pleasure in antagonizing Douglas and his family, causing even more anxiety and grief. After all, from Russel's point of view Douglas tried to befriend a monster to fight his battle for him, therefore he deserves to lose a grandson to said people eating monster. That and for being stupid enough to try and befriend a monster, "it's in her nature to consume and kill." Justine would be really hurt if she heard that, but Russel would be right since she did swallow Marvin, and unless a Mandela effect made him invulnerable, he's dead and he's dead because Douglas trusted her. Justine seems to be trying to make amends for her actions but she seems to think this will be easy. What if she tries to visit Douglas again, to atone or ask for magical help, especially if Marvin is still in her digestive tract. Douglas' family would probably give her an angry reaction, point out that Russel was right, and maybe even demand that Justine immediately release Marvin right there. Justine probably would be hurt, but she'd probably know that she did betray Douglas and his family's trust. The father of the mentally challenged boy, that Justine swallowed would also be someone in the farming community that Justine affected, trying to console his man child son from his nightmares about being in the belly of the "lady monster", while dealing with his own bad memories of being swallowed by Justine and knowing that it was only her mercy that saved them from a gruesome fate that he now knows she subjected others to. On the plus side, Justine didn't cause any harm or hard feelings during her brief trip to the lead knight's town, aside from the shock caused by her size and nudity. Good job on the character motivation on the lead knight and why he was so stubborn, he wanted to prove that he and trained heavily armored cavalry weren't in inevitable decline.

Mark seems to be developing a fetish for Justine's massive body and her bodies capabilities. Being fascinated by her putting out a small house fire by spitting on it, staring at her vulva, having dreams about her, being fascinated by her dominating the knights, being turned on by her carrying him, being amazed at how much water she can gulp down to fill her stomach, even wondering about any fish being inadvertently consumed. Justine seems to have noticed and found this amusing, letting Mark play with her hair. It would be interesting if Mark's curiosity about the human body and subconscious desire to be dominated, could cause him to eventually ask Justine if she would swallow him, with a lantern, on an empty stomach, and throw him up quickly of course, so he could be the first to see what no one else has seen well before.

Lewis's mother has been alive in Justine's stomach for quite some time, and gone through quite a lot. She survived having Justine's stomach partially fill up with water, when she drank, had several chewed cows fall on top of her when Justine ate, then was finally finished off when her stomach completely filled up with water when Justine drank again. It would be interesting to get things from her perspective. All in all, it takes a while for Justine's human victims to die, it makes sense since the acid isn't that fast acting or corrosive, and they are more likely to die from suffocation first.

Justine taking over the town like Mark suggests she should, runs into the challenges of disarming the mob with its fires and pitchforks and disarming them quickly without killing them, or seriously hurting them. And scaring the people enough to make them realize fighting her is pointless, without scaring them so badly that they flee into the woods. For Justine to disarm the mob quickly without killing or hurting them, the easiest way for her to do this is simply to pee on them. Modern day riots are put down with water hoses, and Justine finished this chapter by drinking a huge amount of water. Being knocked over by a huge amount of hot, slightly smelly, liquid being shot out of female plumbing, would quickly and pretty safely disarm the crowd and put out any fire they can bring, as well as really dampening their enthusiasm, machismo, and humiliating them. Driving home how easily she can disarm them with even a simple everyday act, and how pointless it is to pick fights with her. This anticlimactic confrontation between Justine and the mob would work really well with the perspectives from Justine, the mob itself, and maybe even Mark.