Time passes for both people

"Good luck," he says.
He knows that she can't hear it.

Outside, the man carefully gets away with the Cousin's frozen body in tow.
He brought a coat to put on it to give it some 'decency' for the time being.

When Elias returns, he's none the wiser about the switch.

She wasn't one of his favorites and he did have over four dozen.
Easy to slip through the cracks with a reasonable facsimile.

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As time passes, the guy has brought the frozen Cousin to numerous Experts.

She's been poked, prodded and scanned many times over.
She obviously doesn't mind.

Nobody can quite figure out why she's frozen and how she's in some sort of living stasis.

The energy is so infused in her body that it appears as faint background radiation, which is hard to pick up in any scan.

*

In the Facility, Elias has had his fun with Melanie, using her mouth and tits for his own pleasure.
What a perv.

The guy has some hidden cameras and recording devices inside and unfortunately has seen most of this.

While he's trying to unfreeze her Cousin and find the source of the Inventor's device, he has to know that Melanie is his plaything.

*

Eventually, the Auction is set up and Melanie is on the block.

This is part of the plan.
Heaven help those involved!