The seven cacao beans - The Gift #1005402

Venezuela, 1830. In a village where cacao once meant fortune and now means only debt, sixteen-year-old Victoria wants one thing: to belong to no one but herself.
She finds a golden pod in the river unlike any cacao she has ever seen — and gives one of its beans to her mother, as a small Christmas gift. She never means for it to travel any further. But her mother, trying to comfort a weeping bride-to-be, passes the bean along without a second thought.
The next morning, Estela — daughter of the mayor, due to marry a stranger before the week is out — cannot walk. She can only fly.
As the scandal reaches the church doors and Estela flees into the forbidden forest, Victoria and her friend Adelina follow her trail — guided by an anaconda who finds them exhausting and a half-grown ibis with more courage than sense — all the way to a hidden village where their friend is finally, unmistakably free.
They find her. They just don't bring her home.
Because the cacao doesn't give what you wish for. It gives what you need.