Thinking and thinking about this. Kiriona/Gideon is pretending to be a corpse, she's laying in bed wearing her best First House tat and doesn't move the entire time Nona is examining her. She's committed to pretending to be dead. At the same time, her thought process minutes before: does my breath smell weird? What if my breath smells weird? I have to brush my teeth before Harrow comes.

Babygirl, you are being so obvious.