"I have a media player that can display them. So yes, together would be good. Nice, even." It includes an excited tone indicator. Which is totally not the same thing as a :D emoji, even if it expresses the exact same mood in almost as short a form.

And then it goes back to the serious part of everything. You have that time now, too. And perhaps the same expectation that you'll get somewhere in that discovery process that the humans place on me. Good luck.