Lifespan - Ivie's quest

The story is centered around a brave, young mosquito called Ivie, who embarks on a sacrificial Quest to the cave of a thousand signs to get a dose of blood from the Ape Men Who dwell there. The blood is to be used for the purification ritual that will reverse the curse of the gods that has made mosquitoes the deadly agents of Malaria. To all the citizens of Moski-clan, that's all there is to the mission but Queen Shebaz has a very disturbing motive which she desperately wants to see accomplished.