It wasn't a matter of their circumstances. Shannon didn't expect everyone to have had a childhood like his own, merely that by a certain age someone with powers would have at least gained a rudimentary control of them. His point still stood, whether Jasper saw the point that Shannon was making was something else entirely.

Shannon waved his hand in acquiescence, mouth busy with his food and like hell he was going to speak with it full. If Eli couldn't take a small shock to the system like that, electric-powers or not, then that was something to be dealt with as well. "What the hell would I need a lamp for?" he asked once he had swallowed. It wasn't him who was going to be inconvenienced by its loss.