Of course Jasper couldn't handle the clingy kid. Jasper was too light a touch sometimes; then again, that was why Shannon had him working his strengths instead of trying to force him somewhere he didn't belong. That was also why he had Eli come with him today. Shannon had good intuition on his peoples' strengths and their weaknesses like that.

Chuckling at the sound coming from the monstrous feline, Shannon stood and made to kneel in front of Jasper. He started working at Eli's hold, prying his fingers open and moved one arm out so that Jasper could disentangle himself from the other one. "Don't tell me this kid's an octopus," he said conversationally, "because I won't believe it. You can definitely get out of this on your own next time."