It's stupid, they're being stupid, Benedict thinks-- they aren't really here, it's not this cold, perhaps it never was. Stewing in his own misery isn't an attractive state, and perhaps that's why he left this place behind so thoroughly, refusing to even think about it for too long.

The look he gives Byerly is silent but conveys a great deal: that the Ambassador has missed the mark in his guessing, and that the truth of the situation is too shameful to speak aloud.