This is a life-threatening situation. I don't worry about politeness in life-threatening situations.

If you don't have a secure sense of trust, you're feeling pretty anxious. One of the risk factors for children who develop anxiety disorders is a lower social/economic (situation). Not everyone who grows up poor lives in a violent neighborhood, but if you do grow up in an environment where there's a lot of crime, your trust would be pretty low and your anxiety high.