Whisper: Fantasy

The whisper in the darkness made the mare's head shoot up. She would have neighed an alarm to her entire herd, but the whisper came again, up next to her ear, and she listened to it. The match flaring in the darkness made the sentry jerk to a standing position. He would have shouted an alarm to rouse the entire camp, but then he heard the whisper behind the flare of sulfur, and so he sat back down. The rasp of a knife cutting through the tent's fabric would have woken the child from her sleep, but then there was a whisper that sent her back to her sweet dreams/. The child was the only one left alive the next morning. She woke from a beautiful dream, looked around her, and started screaming. When the next trading caravan happened by the campsite, they found her rocking back and forth by the dead embers of a fire. She was covered in blood.

Inspiration: "Infinite Paths" - Din Fiv
Story Potential: High.
Notes: I'm just really lovin' the setting (deserty nomads) and the whisper, and yeah.... Not sure where it would go beyond this, but it made the hairs on my arms stand up.