Everyone had been picking people to work with but he was way too intrigued with the little critters too much to have to hover over someone's shoulder. He walked over toward the area that had the chili powder and grabbed some. He watched all of the other students and figured it couldn't be that hard to do, well putting them right back where they came from might be.

Setting the chili powder down on the ground, Patrick pulled on his dragon hide gloves and leaned into the fire. He saw a little one and grabbed it out of the fire. "Hello my friend, hope you don't mind." Shrugging, he began to inspect the little one. The heat radiated through the gloves making his palms a little sweaty, but not really a burning hot sensation. He saw a little discoloration on it's back by its head.

Opening the chili powder, Patrick rubbed it along the area that looked discolored. The discolored scales began to come out, "Look at that my friend, we're getting you all better and ready to go home." The Salamander wiggled a bit as if it were enjoying the rub down of chili. Once the salamander was up to Patricks standards he set it back into the fire.

A bit curious, Patrick looked at the professor "Professor, do they really enjoy the rubbing of chili on the scales? Or is it painful like when you need to clean out a cut?" It seemed like a silly question to ask, but really if it was hurting them he might feel terrible.