I also agree, this sounds most splendid. 

I shall get to work on a young gentleman who accidentally 'falls down the rabbit hole' as it were :) I'll stick towards the young scholar type role and then once started will go the Mage in training route. 

If Bunnita returns then it should still work with a pair of main characters - and even if we do decide it would be better with one I'm sure the villains of this world will have no trouble stealing away/corrupting a young human boy.