Defile Life and Death

(faucibus vitae et mortis)

This spell is a minor magical trick that novice necromancers use for practice. You create one of the following magical effects within range.

• You drain the life from a small flower or bush, watching it wither away in a manner of seconds
• You drain the life from small insects or other less than tiny creatures, watching them twitch and fight as life leaves them.
• You instantaneously stiffen a muscle of a dead natural creature, making it difficult to move the joints.
• If a dead natural creature has not yet dried out, you can loosen their muscles, making joints easy to bend. 
• You move a joint on a dead natural creature (regardless of stiffening), such as moving an arm, head, jaw, rotating the eyes. (if strength and constitution checks need to be made, the limb will be using your spellcasting ability as its strength ability, any other will be using your other appropriate stats )
• You can animate a tiny dead natural creature to your whims, making one limb match the movement of one of your figures, often resulting in nightmarish movements, as you puppeteer the corpse around.
  while concentrating on this creature you can use it as a familiar pet, looking through its senses ( if it lacks senses due to the lack of body parts, then these senses are missing. the "familiar" can go up to 100 feet away or the spell drops )
• You can make a presently dead natural create twitch and turn.