Wow, thank you! Admittedly, it WAS quite hard to put in words why I like them so much, but I'm very glad it ended up making sense ^_^

I've heard the sequel talk as well, and I'm also curious as to what is going to happen between these two! I would say it might have something to do with what goes on in the book series, but Astrid is absent from those, so it's hard to say...However it goes down, though, I hope the charm of these two doesn't go away as the story continues :D