I logged on to Cannith tonight to find this:
If it didn’t click for you right away, Lilo and Wyoh are both hirelings, and Wyoh has the star! The funny is, that except for the fact that I log on to find them in the party, they’re not even my hirelings! lol. My guildie used them last time we quested together.
Thank you for stopping by and take care. 🙂
Micki's Delirium 
We’re they in the same instance as you too?
Not sure how I could have checked that? They were not on the ship anyway. 🙂
Then i guess not, but that is still a weird bug.
🙂 Someone else told me just a week or so ago about also being in a party where Wyoh had the star, lol. And I’ve seen it happen once before where the person with the star dc’d, and the star went to the hireling. We had to regroup.
That is probably what happened in this case, but then your guide logged on a new character before you logged back in
I actually had a similar thing happen to me about a week or so ago. I logged on with my character Hamllin and ran the quest The Black Loch. After the last fight I was making my way to the treasure room when I dc’ed. When I logged back in was in the House Deneith Ward and my hireling at the time was the party leader.
🙂 I think I may have read that? Sounds familiar. I bug reported this, with screenshot included.
I would do whatever Wyoh says. Just to be sure.