Mariella in the Parable

Escape

(Quick author note: I got hit with this idea randomly. And may not flesh this out to much. I'm writing on my phone so if you find any spelling errors don't be afraid to tell me. Hope you enjoy!)

I was heading to work and walked pass a clearly  crazy person lying in the street. I pity him but continue walking. I need to get to work. When I reach the door I open it and walk inside, something feels wrong. This isn't my office this is some sort of warehouse. What's going on. Suddenly my vision goes black and I collapse.

When I awoke, I'm in a room with two door a left and a right one. I hear a voice
"Mariella awoke and looked around the room" the voice sounds like a female. How does she knows my name? I look behind me but I'm alone in the room. Before I had time to ponder I hear the sounds a doors open and another voice.

"Stanley walked in the left do- who are you?" Said the voice. There is a man standing looking shocked at my existence but he's not the one talking. The man actually looks a lot like the man I saw earlier- wait what man? My memories are fading at the second. "I'm Mariella" I hesitate.
"Oh goodness!" The voice gasped "You can speak, that's great. I was losing my mind with this silence." The man looks up the ceiling and signs something with his hands. I think it's ASL but I'm not sure.

"Well yes Stanley I know I'm not alone but I've been listening to my own voice for hours on end. Anyone would have ended up crazy. Even though my voice is quite wonderful" The man (who I assume is Stanley) seems annoyed with the voice.
"Well Mariella, do you know how you got here?" The voice asks.
"I'm not too sure the last thing I remember is passing out and waking up with another voice saying what I was doing." I answer his question. He mutters something quickly under his breath than asks "Can you describe the voice you heard before me" "Yeah, it was a female voice. She sounded very formal and put together." "Ugh! I can't believe her. One second I'll be right back" After that a microphone turns off.

What was that about? I look at Stanley and ask him "what is this place?" I'm hoping he'll give me a straight answer. He signs something. "Oh I don't know." I say, does he think I'm rude? He thinks for a second and pull out a pen and paper out of his pocket. He writes something down and shows me the paper 'Hell'. I'm suddenly feeling a lot lot worse about this place. "Well who was that?" I ask referring to the male voice. Stanley writes down 'Narrator'. I ask another question "who was the voice I heard earlier?" He writes 'Curator'. "Are they evil or something?" Stanley shrugs, 'the narrator has a short temper but the Curator is actually good at her job, but they can't do much only reset the game'. "Game? What game? This isn't a game this is real right? Am I real" I start to panic, what is this place? It sounds like Stanley doesn't know either. I try to open the door behind Stanley. I need to get out of here. I try the two other doors. None of them is working. They were open before the Narrator left. I grab the handle of the left door and tug on it with all my strength. Then there is another microphone screech and some sounds of papers. "Ok Guys I've changed around the scrip because of Mariella's appearance." The Narrator starts but I cut him off "How do we get out of here! I don't know where you are but you better get us out of here or I'll- I'll" I get cut off by the Narrator. "Mariella calm down, I'm not your enemy, here" the door I'm tugging at opens. I rush in and look around. "Stanley what did you tell her to get her in such a panicked rush?" I can't see what Stanley replied with. I step into a meeting room with Stanley following behind me. "Stanley and Mariella step into the meeting room yet there isn't anyone here either. They decided to check the bosses office." The narrator said. We walk up to the bosses office. I don't know who's boss it is but I don't know what else to call it. "Mariella and Stanley walk into the bosses office-" the narrator get cut off by Stanley typing an number in a keypad on the wall. "Ugh Stanley do you have to cut me off every time? I know you've been though this many times before but Mariella hasn't. She has no idea what thrilling adventure is going to happen next." As the narrator spoke a wall moved and revealed an elevator. Me and Stanley walk into the elevator and he hits the down button. When it reaches its stop we both step out. In front of us there is a huge room that has a sign above it that says 'mind control facility' but to the left is a sign written to escape. I immediately turn to the left and walk down the dimply lit hallway. "No Mariella please don't go that way, it will literally lead to your death." The narrator said. I still continue walking. "I know you don't trust me but you can ask Stanley." I think about what he said, he does have a point of this is an escape why isn't Stanley gone? But I still continue walking. The narrator goes of on something else but I don't listen.

Until me and Stanley step onto some sort of conveyer thing. It takes me a few seconds to realize the conveyer is heading straight to a metal crusher. Oh no. At least if I die I'll be out of here. The narrators loud voice pulls me out of my thoughts, "See what I mean Mariella it leads to your death. I bet you're thinking about how stupid you are for not listening to me" the conveyer inched forward. "Farewell you two" then the microphone turned off. I close my eyes and brace myself to get crushed to death. "I'm sorry Stanley- I was stupid and now both of us are going to get killed" I say. Stanley seems unamused. I'm panicking, until the conveyor stopped. Then there was another voice "'Farewell you two' cried out the narrator." I recognized her voice from earlier. The curator! "Hey! How did I get here?" I yell at seemingly nothing. "Hm, I don't recall Stanley being able to speak" she replies. "Well I'm not Stanley I'm Mariella! Now tell us how to get out of here!" I demand. "If I could tell you I would but this isn't under my control." She states. "Then who is? The narrator?" I question "Him? No that blundering fool can't even keep his own protagonist in line, let alone an entire game." "If Stanley is the narrators protagonist, then who or what am I? Am I under your control I heard your voice earlier?" "Your not under my control, the reason you heard my voice earlier is because I was doing the fools job because he was too busy playing with his toy. About the what you are I'm not too sure about that. But the game belongs to the timekeeper" The timekeeper? Why does every time I feel close to finding something more people show up? "How do I find the timekeeper?" "I don't know if you could find the timekeeper" How helpful, at least she's giving me straight answers unlike the other two.
The floor underneath me and Stanley disappears and we both go falling.

We land in a museum like thing. There is pictures of what I think is the office I was in earlier. "Welcome to the museum, I know Stanley has seen this place before and you don't care about the creation of the game I'll just reset it for you." She says. Last thing I remember is my vision going black and hitting the floor.