Benjen accepts the compliment, pleased by it much more so than he might be otherwise because it came from Asato. He doesn't even question the why of that -- it simply is. He gives Asato his moment of silence, and then removes his knife. He'd made certain it was a clean kill, not harming anything useful. "I suspect we have scared away anything near. Shall we clean them here and bury the entrails? Before moving on."