Charmed with a Prismatic Crystal?
It’s probably a while ago now since you found your first Prismatic Crystal, so you might have forgotten about or maybe you didn’t even notice that there’s a nearby Ravenous Slime, there’s a few of them around the zone, cute little things, hungry too…
The charm only lasts an hour too, so you’ll only have your critter buddy for a little while if you don’t mercilessly feed it to a slime