Not inevitable, no. Never inevitable -- and that's enough, because hope is the greatest power and the greatest motivating force of the world. Hope and love: the mightiest engines of any future the Milliways library can tell of have nothing on them.

In this one track, Enjolras and Prouvaire's thoughts have been running along similar lines; if not the same, at least more or less parallel. (He's probably starting to glow a little again.)