Runs and Ruins

If you have ever worn a pair of stockings before, you would know better to take extra care of your movements. If you are not careful enough, an accidental brush against a rough surface or a careless contact with a sharp object could easily get your stocking into a run.

And once you get a tiny hole in the closely knitted material - even if it is in the least conspicuous spot - and you don't cease it in time, the hole quietly spreads its territory, eating away your cover. Eventually a whole line of stitches will come undone. When it all comes undone, the run would be far too obvious, and its damage irreparable.

In the crevice that stretches from the top to the tip, lies a narrow stretch of your skin, like a river that divides a piece of land.