the two hour wait period---no disguise...
doesn't seem right!
I hate to drag on, but I want to give an example of what panic can do to a kid. When I was in fourth grade, I was at a public school at the time (I'm homeschooled now), my dad was late picking me up. I panicked and thought I had been forgotten. Reason had passed me by so much that when I saw his car and it was empty (he was looking for me), rather than stay and wait as I should have, I left and started to look for him. Luckily he was returning to the car at that time and all was well.
Anyway, that bit of history was hardly a traumatic situation, but because I panicked I simply couldn't reason. That's what happens with kids that age. This isn't a jab at adults or anything, but I think that adults forget how kids think and reason, or, in some cases, don't.