"The occasional storm passes over, but there are ways around it. We're on the ocean, so the rain is always cold. Most people need to put on a heater when there's a storm, so they just use that to dry their things. The Centre, of course, has pokemon."

There was a certain sense of camaraderie, in the Centres; even if one trainer didn't have a fire pokemon, chances were another would. Centres often used fireplaces more than space heaters as well, which actually took less energy than you'd think. Generated electricity had to be bought from the power plants; fires could be burned on the wood and coal shed by pokemon. True, electricity could be had the same way, but that still used up the pokemon's energy.

Lance finished piling the laundry in one of the baskets and then turned toward the door, tilting his head at it in silent question. Get that for him, Sefton?