the perfect world she came from - the world where , nonetheless , she was one of the few who had suffered - was a place where she could not conceive of the sorrowful and twisted nature that every human being has - no being in the universe is as broken as a human - except for afazel and his followers , of course , who are broken irrevocably , for all anyone knows , although even that is a secret in the heart of the alpha of alphas .