"Yeah, this should be enough..."
Wallace Hope stood in the shadow of a large sycamore tree, almost a mile from the nearest village. He'd met an elderly woman earlier in the day who had lost her necklace, and being Wallace, had agreed to help find it without hesitation. Had he been told initially that it had been dropped in the forest surrounding the town, he may have had answered differently.
"Ah well," he thought, a dry smile on his face.
"No use complaining now."The man turned to his makeshift search party- a few dead squirrels, a couple of rotting finches, and the skeleton of a small snake. The necromancer's stave flashed, and animals writhed and twisted, eyes beginning to glow a pale green. After a few seconds they stopped, and began to crowd around their new master. "Alright guys!" Wallace said. "Find that necklace!"
The zombie animals scurried off, and Wallace leaned against the tree. Hopefully with this many eyes looking, the search would be over before dark...
*~*~*~*~*~*~*
The undead squirrel scampered through the forest, its cloudy eyes darting about. It was looking for something... something shiny, yes. Shiny like the sun on a puddle. It wasn't like looking for a nut or acorn- those weren't very shiny at all. Standing on it's hind legs, the zombie smelled the air in a grotesque mockery of it's still living relatives...
Suddenly, the rodent caught a glimpse of something sparkly out of the corner of it's eye! In a flash it ran towards it's target, snaching the silver necklace off the pink haired human and running off with it...