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=== Characters Appearing in This Chapter ===
* {{a|Pandora}} {{1a}}
* {{a|Pandora's light-furred friend}} {{1a}}
* {{a|Pandora's dark-furred friend}} {{1a}}
* {{a|Kyndley}} {{1a}}
* {{a|Zero Angiers}} {{1a}} {{1n}}
* {{a|Isabelle Monday}} {{1a}} {{1n}}
* {{a|Veronica Fortuna}} {{1a}}
* {{a|Con Yung}} {{1a}}
 
=== Synopsis ===
The scene opens on the [[Helper Corporation facility|Helper Corporation training facility]], where genetically engineered cat-people are bred, brainwashed, and "[[Helper programming|trained]]" to be slaves. A [[Helper]] who will eventually be known as [[Pandora]] tells her [[Product Care Agent|overseer]] [[Kyndley]] that she [[enby:Transfeminine|is a girl, despite being assigned male at birth]]<ref>https://pandorastale.com/2019/10/18/chapter-1-page-3/</ref>. Kyndley reminds Pandora that Helpers are created to serve their owners, and Pandora's future master won't be happy with a boy who thinks she's a girl. Pandora responds that she isn't "a boy who thinks he's a girl": she's a girl<ref>https://pandorastale.com/2019/10/18/chapter-1-page-4/</ref>.
 
Kyndley tells Pandora that she is broken<ref>https://pandorastale.com/2019/10/18/chapter-1-page-5/</ref>, and takes her to a doctor. The doctor explains that some Helpers just are trans, and [[Monopolith]] doesn't understand why<ref>https://pandorastale.com/2019/10/18/chapter-1-page-6/</ref>. Kyndley plans to have Pandora's memory erased and give her a new personality to make her a boy<ref>https://pandorastale.com/2019/10/18/chapter-1-page-8/</ref> Pandora screams "I'm not a boy!" and runs off<ref>https://pandorastale.com/2019/10/18/chapter-1-page-9/</ref>.
 
Pandora crawls through a vent, and finds herself among helpers who are about to be shipped to buyers <ref>https://pandorastale.com/2019/10/18/chapter-1-page-12/</ref>. Seeing a chance to avoid having her memory erased, Pandora climbs into a capsule which is about to be shipped<ref>https://pandorastale.com/2019/10/18/chapter-1-page-13/</ref>. Pandora wishes she wasn't broken<ref>https://pandorastale.com/2019/10/18/chapter-1-page-14/</ref>.
 
By sheer chance, the delivery drone containing Pandora suffers from an engine failure and lands in the middle of the desert, where the [[Pioneer City]] [[The Resistance|resistance]] finds it<ref>https://pandorastale.com/2019/10/18/chapter-1-page-15/</ref>.
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=== Trivia ===
* As of Chapter 8{{InfoUpdateFlag|9}}, Chapter 1 is the only chapter with fewer than 21 numbered pages. The [https://pandorastale.com/2019/10/18/chapter-1-extra/ "extra" page] is effectively this chapter's page 21.
* Xan made her first draft of this chapter's script [https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandoras-tale-1-30752024 available to Patreon backers].
 
===Chapters===
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