[Her shoulders ease the slightest bit, and she works the stocking over his toes and flat against his heel, pulls it taut before setting it on her warm thigh, covering the very tip of a light scar.

She works the hose up his real leg just as gently--light touches at ankle and calf and behind the knee, whispery brushes of her fingers as the semi-opaque material goes up and up and up, covering whatever scars and blemishes and freckles with a silvery sheen.

Her hand stutter the slightest bit before disappearing under the hem of his slip. Pulling the hose up to his upper thigh, she then presses gently into his flesh to extricate her fingers without snapping the elastic too roughly]