Sweat -- edit 2

[RiverNotch]

I get that the sweat is from anxiety, but as fight-or-flight is a universal response, so is sweating to higher temperatures.....that is, as I said, with your piece starting with the very neutral statement of the speaker sweating, any reader living in a country where sun is commoner than fear might, like me, be led to the wrong thought --- although now I get why iced is there a bit better, yet it still sounds awkward.