Jehan doesn't need to imagine how Enjolras chafes at enforced uselessness.

"Is there any way," he says, "that we could treat Milliways as a world of its own, with its own needs that might be addressed, as well as a midway place between other worlds? Oh, I know Bar seems to address everything--but surely there's something. I wasn't here for our clash with Security, but surely that reveals a lack...a lack of something, anyway, something we may at least begin to fill?"