She smiles as the creature - Cath Palug II - rushes over to grab the food from her hand before running away again, and then she looks up at Merlin again. Of course, she has no idea who the original is, although she figured that there was likely another, based on the name.

"It's just that you were acting like he was more like an annoyance than a friend. But if you've named him..." The smile becomes playful again. "That sounds kinda like a friend to me, you know? Does he follow you everywhere you go, now?"

And then, after a moment, the next question follows: "So if he's the second, who was the first?"