action; | not at all! also, i'm sorry for this tl;dr meta.
Ah - yeah. Just some light reading.
[ if physics can be considered light, but he's restless and starting to feel useless. the month of fighting, apocalypse free time he's had here is growing old, yet he's hesitant to jump back into the same save the day routine, hence his lack of getting involved with the defense force. as far as angel's concerned, the people in it are doing a good job and don't need his help at the moment. he's not one to steal the show or intervene in processes that are already working just fine. and he can let off the physical side of being idle against buffy and faith - which is ideal, seeing as the slayers can take him and he doesn't need to hold back.
what he can do is start refining what he knows about transdimensional travel. and that involves starting to actively look into fred's area of expertise. angel understands the basic principals on a very... basic sort of scale when it comes to the science-y side of things, being more of an expert on the magical. there was never any need to brush up on the non-supernatural angle while in the presence of people like fred and wes. but, both people are gone and not here. can't hurt to start learning it for himself and maybe figure out a way out of here.
it's a long shot, he knows, but he's the king of getting out of impossible to escape dimensions. ]