It doesn't move forward or backward.
In Tenet, love is the only un-invertible force.
She felt the vertigo of knowing her own future. "That's not romance, Neil. That's predestination." Kokomi Sex Dance -Tenet-
When the painting was secured, Kokomi realized she was crying. Neil, standing across the turnstile glass, wiped a tear from his cheek—a tear that, in his inverted timeline, had yet to fall.
The Inverted Waltz of the Coral Heart
In the future, Neil had been her second-in-command. They had shared a single, perfect evening on a moonlit beach on Watatsumi—before the attack. She had given him a small, polished shell, smooth as a pearl. "For luck," she had said. "Or for regret. Depends on the tide."
He walked to the shore. The tide was coming in. It doesn't move forward or backward
The second date was a strategy meeting. She brought him tea. He wept because, in his memory, the last time she brought him tea, she had been bleeding out from a gut wound.
