Dusk deals with the usual proportion of internet personalities; some admire the skill, a few over the top flirts, a dozen 'not really her' types, and some that are entirely too easy to wrap around her finger. The view counts are steadily rising, someone is going to be making money from these clips. It feeds on itself for hours and the inevitable private messages are probably what she expected.
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The rubies turn out to be an urban legend around the Middle East. Excluding the obvious creepy pasta and photoshop the earliest seeming mention are from the mid-nineties. Tons of 'Sadam invaded Kuwait seeking them' conspiracies, a handful of 'alien relic statues that moved' claims, and a missing twelve person archeological expedition. It's sifting for a sandstone tablet in eight square miles of sand dunes.
Dowsing works! The stones pull so hard they smack into her cheek hard enough to leave a small bruise and stopped just short of her left eye. It feels like arm-wrestling a hyperactive child to get them to pay attention to anything but her. Eventually they sullenly circle two points on the map.
One in an empty stretch of flyover country. The other in New York City.