Lightning split the air, illuminating the nighttime sky like a blinding flash of white. Thunder tumbled through the across the whole camp-sight, signaling how much closer the storm was getting to them.
"The storm is about a mile away now." Snow murmured while staring up at the tree-line as another flash lit up the sky.
The other Pokémon around Snow just blinked and stared at her with utter confusion written plainly on each of their faces.
"What?" Snow asked, a bit startled at the sudden silence. "Did I say something wrong?"
Eventually, though, it was Lightning who was the first to say a word.
"I think she's talking about how close the storm is getting to us." The Team Pack leader explained with a flick of his tail toward the cave entrance.
Snow nodded her head in agreement at the Pikachu's words.
"Exactly! Lightning's answer is spot on!"
The other Pokémon still looked a bit shocked and totally flabbergasted and confused.
Both Snow and Lightning glanced at each other with equal looks of helplessness.
How do I say this in Pokémon terms? Snow mused to herself with a thoughtful look on her face.
"I can tell by how much time passes between the lightning and the thunder."
"Really? How do you-" Another streak of lightning lit up the sky.
"One, two, three, four..." All the way up to twenty. "It's getting closer. Only four miles away now."
"What's a mile? And how did you figure that out?"
"A mile is, er, a pretty long distance. Sorry, I can't really explain it any other way, but it's longer than the distance across the lake for sure. Anyway, to find out how far away a storm is, you start counting until the thunder sounds. Then you divide the number you counted to by five."
""Divide?"
"Separate into groups. See, I counted to twenty," Link scored twenty small lines in the ground with his claws, "so to divide it by five, I make groups of five out of the twenty. See?" Using a claw, she drew circles around each group of five lines. "Four circles, which means that twenty divided by five is four."
"Oh, I think I get it," Lavender mewed with a nod. "That's kinda confusing though." Snow smoothed out the marks in the ground with her paws.
"What if there's a bit left over that doesn't fit?" a voice asked. It was Inferno, who must have been listening in on the math lesson from inside the warrior's den.
"Then you get something called a remainder," Lightning explained. "You'd have to separate the extra line into five parts to keep the groups equal. So if you wanted to divide twenty-one by five, the answer would be four and one fifth."
Lightning once more illuminated the sky, and Lightning started counting yet again.
"Fifteen," he concluded once the thunder sounded. "So the storm's three miles away."
"It's still getting closer," Lavender mewed with a glance at the sky. "I don't know if I like that."
The small group of Pokémon were silent as they sat, sheltered from the pouring rain by the overhanging brambles of the den.
