Bruce does not come in from outside. Bruce comes up from the cellar, then in from the living quarters through a door at the back of the sanctuary.

Bruce loves this place. It's so easy to have a buffer zone, a live-able 'public' space, and then a highly and easily defensible one. Graveyard being full of bodies and the cellar clearly having been used to store them before burial is irrelevant.

Coming out to finding Tim draped across one of the pews he's pushed against the walls to reclaim open space in the center of the sanctuary, however, is... different.

"You certainly look like dying in the relatively near future is possible. Would you prefer a bed?" And someone to look at him? And-