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Book 2 begins with a flashback, as [[Kyndley]] witnesses the birth of [[Pandora]]<ref>https://pandorastale.com/2022/05/25/chapter-8-page-1/</ref>, and Kyndley is told not to think of [[Helper|Helpers]] as people<ref>https://pandorastale.com/2022/05/26/chapter-8-page-2/</ref>.
One month<ref>https://pandorastale.com/2022/06/07/chapter-8-page-10/</ref> after the end of the [[Book One|previous book]], Pandora recounts a dream she is having to [[Noor Shah]]. In the dream, Pandora and [[Isabelle]] are at the [[Helper Corporation facility]], except Isabelle is also a Helper<ref>https://pandorastale.com/2022/05/27/chapter-8-page-3/</ref>. Kyndley takes Isabelle away to have her memory erased. Pandora wants to know what the dream means<ref>https://pandorastale.com/2022/05/30/chapter-8-page-4/</ref>, and
As part of a therapy session with Noor<ref>https://pandorastale.com/2022/06/01/chapter-8-page-6/</ref>, Pandora tells Noor about her time growing up in the Helper Corporation facility<ref>https://pandorastale.com/2022/06/02/chapter-8-page-7/</ref>. Pandora witnessed a malfunction by one of the VR headsets used to teach Helpers<ref>https://pandorastale.com/2022/06/03/chapter-8-page-8/</ref>, and Kyndley said that the Helper using the malfunctioning headset is broken<ref>https://pandorastale.com/2022/06/06/chapter-8-page-9/</ref>.
Pandora tells
In the flashback, Pandora realizes that she doesn't like being a boy, in spite of the fact that other boys seem to like it<ref>https://pandorastale.com/2022/06/09/chapter-8-page-12/</ref>. Pandora admits to a few other female Helpers that she wishes she could be a girl<ref>https://pandorastale.com/2022/06/10/chapter-8-page-13/</ref>. The other Helpers invite her to put on a girl outfit and hang out with them<ref>https://pandorastale.com/2022/06/13/chapter-8-page-14/</ref>. After getting euphoria when someone calls her a girl, Pandora concludes that she ''is'' a girl<ref>https://pandorastale.com/2022/06/14/chapter-8-page-15/</ref>, leading back to the events of the [[Broken, Part 1|first chapter]].
Back in the present, Pandora asks
As the chapter closes,
=== Trivia ===
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**As a consequence, the number of characters who have appeared in every chapter to date dropped from five to two.
*This is also the first chapter in which [[Isabelle]] appears only in an altered form (as a dream Helper).
*Prior to the release of this chapter, readers in the Pandora's Tale Discord server voted for Noor as their favorite character to appear in Book 1. Xan commented that Noor fans should know that Noor would have a big role in Unbecoming<ref>https://nitter.net/ComicsByXan/status/1501674604997214209#m</ref><ref>https://archive.
*This is the second chapter in a row where no new named characters are introduced, but where a previously introduced character's name is revealed.
*The image of Pandora getting hit in the head by a ball<ref>https://pandorastale.com/2022/06/09/chapter-8-page-12/</ref> is an unintentional<ref>https://nitter.net/ComicsByXan/status/1506749034198753281</ref><ref>https://archive.
*The [[KYAAAA|sound Pandora makes]] upon first being noticed in the Helper girls' room<ref>https://pandorastale.com/2022/06/10/chapter-8-page-13/</ref> is the same sound she makes when [[Adrastea]] approaches her in the previous chapter<ref>https://pandorastale.com/2021/10/25/chapter-7-page-6/</ref>.
*The facial expression Pandora makes when she says she gets frustrated with Isabelle<ref>https://pandorastale.com/2022/06/16/chapter-8-page-17/</ref> is the same facial expression Adrastea made in the previous chapter when she said [[Eric Michael Fishguard]] is not a good man<ref>https://pandorastale.com/2021/11/04/chapter-7-page-16/</ref>.
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