Street Mouse [Yandere Archduke x Female Reader]

1. Street Mouse.

A/N = authors note
Are prefaced by this A/N, and are always in bold.

Y/N = your name.

L/N = last name.

Y/F/C = your favorite color.

E/C = your eye color.

H/C = your hair color.

H/L = your hair length.

If it is in italic, it means that it is a thought, a memory, or occasionally a dream. Use context and common sense to figure out which it is.

"Spoken words."

Important words.

"Projected words."

"YELLED WORDS."

I shall write in anything else you need to know, as it comes along.

Until next time I'll see you on the other side

~J. C. Coltt.~

. . .

Y/N couldn't remember much about her father. He had died of illness when she was very young, but whenever she thought of him, the image of a kind smile and the smell of fresh-baked bread came to mind.

Her earliest memories were of her and her mother selling the bakery that her father had owned, and going to live with Y/N's uncle (her mother's brother,) in the tavern that he ran, called The Ram's Beard Inn.

Now Y/N was too young to know much about where she lived, but she did know that their little village was the only stop in between the two countries on either side of them. Meaning that running an Inn was quite a financially rich occupation, what exactly that meant she did not know, but it sounded good.

Her uncle was a stern man who often scolded her for the smallest things, but her mother always insisted it came from a place of love.

Now, Y/N couldn't remember much of her time living at the inn, but she could remember a few things, how to make a simple vegetable stew, how to set and clean the tables, and her favorite, how to make oat-bread, which had been a specialty of her father's.

Y/N had only fond memories of that time. Even though the room she and her mother shared had been dark and cramped, it had been warm, and she felt loved.

Her favorite memories had to be from the summer months when the market was held on the main street of the Crivell village.

There would be farmers selling their harvests, women selling colorful and fragrant flowers, occasionally travelers would set up their tents to sell odds and ends that they had collected throughout their many adventures to faraway places, and of course, Y/N and her mother would always be there, selling baked goods, in order to make some extra money.

Y/N's mother would work the stand, leaving Y/N to run around from colorful stall to colorful stall, packed tightly on either side of the main road.

Tall and slightly cockeyed buildings stood on both sides of the main street. The buildings were for the most part made of timber from the mountains that surrounded the village, but the occasional building would be made from a sandy stone.