He might have chuckled, if it wasn't also worrying, and if the fact that Nephrite might actually be serious wasn't the precise reason that Nephrite was here now.

"That temper," Zoisite said instead. "Has it solved anything so far?"

The answer was, of course, no; and if you were looking for a more thorough answer, it included things like 'not in a million years' and 'it's made it ten times worse'.