Being giant had its advantages for sightseeing. You could step over any queue, look around multiple tourist spots without having to travel far between them and get free entry wherever you pleased - who was going to try and make a giantess pay for a ticket?
Vallis' trip to the Scottish capital was going well. She'd adjusted her size so she wasn't too big for the narrow streets below, but big enough to still look down on everything - including the castle. She loved that it was conveniently positioned on a hilltop, it meant she didn't have to lean over so much to look round it.
As she inspected the tiny buildings and the even tinier guards stationed around in in their cute little uniforms, Vallis was distracted by the sound of bagpipes. She could see in one of the courtyards in front of her that a parade of miniscule musicians was forming. No doubt this was for her benefit, wherever she went in her travels the little locals would always try to impress her. It wasn't a bad review on some travel site they were worried about though - Vallis was known for literally trashing any travel location which didn't live up to her expectations.
As she listened to the band play below she could hear something else - the familiar whirring of a nearby helicopter. She tried to ignore it but it grew louder. Soon it became hard to hear the music over the buzzing near her ear. She turned and glared at the pilot.
"Do you mind? I'm trying to absorb some culture here." she snarled loudly.
The helicopter backed off, climbing just out of her current reach - but close enough for its blades to still be heard.
Vallis gave the tiny helicopter one last glare as a final warning but it remained hovering where it is. The giantess sighed. She'd promised herself she wouldn't do this but she had no choice - she was going to have to get bigger to deal with this little pest.
She breathed out slowly, and rose up as she did. She heard the band stop playing below and worried murmurs from the tourists and guards alike - growing quieter as she grew further and further away from them. The helicopter realised what was happening and started to bank away but she was now too big for it to escape. She simply reached out and snatched it out of the air, like she had done many times before with other similar annoyances.
"You know what, I think its time to try the local cuisine..." she teased before raising the now bite-sized helicopter to her maw and tossing it in. It was in no way filling but she made an effort to savour the taste. Metal and fuel weren't the best tasting thing in the world, even when mixed with a few tiny passengers, but Vallis was sure it was likely better than haggis.
With the little annoyance gone the giant tourist considered what to do next, specifically she wondered how big she'd need to get to be able to see the Highlands.
Meta: I threw this one together quite quickly after seeing a few of my favourite collagers take up the challenge of @GiantessVallis to put her into as many cities as possible - I just had to join the fun. The source image - though easy to cut out thanks to the green screen background, posed a bit of a challenge because of the angle. I decided to put her in Edinburgh as there's a lot of interesting things to loom over there and I hadn't seen anyone else use it yet. I was really happy to find a shot of this city which matched the source shot's perspective - I wasn't going to use it at first as it meant I couldn't center Vallis in the collage, but it grew on me after some experimentation. I did some cropping so she wasn't too far from the center and a bit of blurring to try and sell it as a candid shot which I hope works.
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