Antonyms For Scavenger [2021] -

“Pick whichever one you like,” Leo said. “I’m just the person who believes that nothing worthless stays that way forever.”

“What do I owe you?” she asked.

The word stuck to him like mud on a raincoat. Scavenger. Feeder on the dead. Picker of bones and broken things.

He held up a pocket watch he’d just fixed for a farmer whose father had carried it through a war. The hands were moving again, counting out seconds like small, steady gifts.

Years later, a reporter came to write about the young man who had turned an abandoned factory into a community workshop. She asked Leo what he called himself.