diff --git a/docs/design.md b/docs/design.md
index 95e441f..858feea 100644
--- a/docs/design.md
+++ b/docs/design.md
@@ -223,6 +223,24 @@ Not alternatives — layers:
 Router contract: `[{"intent":<enum>, key?, value?, text?, verb?}, ...]` over
 7 intents (`fact, reminder, note, query, act, chat, system`).
 
+#### "второй" points at the list she just read
+
+Landed 2026-08-04 (Vikunja #448). The dialogue session carried the intent, the
+slots and the history, and not the list. She recited five tasks, he said
+"второй", and the word had nothing to point at.
+
+`Session.Candidates` holds what she just offered, bound at the moment she speaks
+it and in the order she speaks it (`tasks.Spoken`). Binding afterwards would
+resolve the word against a fresh query, and the list changes between two turns.
+`cmd/mavend/ordinal.go` reads the position before routing and dispatches on the
+candidate's kind.
+
+An ordinal with no verb is read back, not acted on — "второй" names a task, it
+does not say what to do with it. With a verb ("первую сделал", "последнюю
+убери") the task moves and the list is spent, because a second ordinal against a
+list that no longer holds closes the wrong work. A position she never read is
+answered with how many she did read, not routed as a fresh sentence.
+
 #### Saying she got it wrong is a feature
 
 Landed 2026-08-04 (Vikunja #455). `Router.CorrectMisroute` could always append a
diff --git a/internal/dialogue/session.go b/internal/dialogue/session.go
index d7203f3..d71cbf1 100644
--- a/internal/dialogue/session.go
+++ b/internal/dialogue/session.go
@@ -42,12 +42,27 @@ type Turn struct {
 	Text   string // raw utterance
 }
 
+// Candidate — one item she just read out loud, kept so his next words can
+// pick it ("второй", "первую сделал"). Vikunja #448.
+//
+// Bound at the moment she speaks the list, not resolved afterwards: the list
+// can change between two turns, and "второй" means the second thing she said,
+// not the second row of a fresh query.
+type Candidate struct {
+	Kind  string // what it is, e.g. "task" — the resolver dispatches on this
+	Ref   int64  // the row it points at
+	Label string // what she called it, so she can repeat it back
+}
+
 type Session struct {
 	Intent    Intent
 	Slots     Slots
 	Timestamp time.Time
 	TTL       time.Duration
 	History   []Turn // most recent turns, newest last; used for anaphora + cross-intent
+	// Candidates — the list she just offered, in the order she said it. Empty
+	// on every turn that offered no choice, which is most of them.
+	Candidates []Candidate
 }
 
 func (s *Session) IsExpired(now time.Time) bool {
@@ -143,6 +158,26 @@ func (s *SessionStore) Put(id string, sess *Session) {
 	s.save(id, sess)
 }
 
+// SetCandidates attaches a just-spoken list to the live session.
+//
+// In place rather than through Put, because the turn was already remembered by
+// the time the answer was built: replacing the session here would drop the
+// slots the next follow-up inherits. No session, no candidates — a choice with
+// no turn behind it has nothing to be a choice about.
+func (s *SessionStore) SetCandidates(id string, now time.Time, cands []Candidate) {
+	s.mu.Lock()
+	sess, ok := s.sessions[id]
+	if ok && !sess.IsExpired(now) {
+		sess.Candidates = cands
+	} else {
+		ok = false
+	}
+	s.mu.Unlock()
+	if ok {
+		s.save(id, sess)
+	}
+}
+
 func (s *SessionStore) Delete(id string) {
 	s.mu.Lock()
 	delete(s.sessions, id)
diff --git a/internal/tasks/rank.go b/internal/tasks/rank.go
index e2f88fd..d3fe75e 100644
--- a/internal/tasks/rank.go
+++ b/internal/tasks/rank.go
@@ -268,3 +268,26 @@ func pluralTasksRU(n int) string {
 	}
 	return "задач"
 }
+
+// Spoken — the tasks FormatRU actually named, in the order it named them
+// (Vikunja #448). "второй" has to mean the second thing she said, so the list
+// an ordinal resolves against is built here and not by a caller guessing how
+// the renderer split and truncated it.
+func Spoken(ranked []Ranked) []Ranked {
+	var open, cands []Ranked
+	for _, r := range ranked {
+		if r.Status == StatusCandidate {
+			cands = append(cands, r)
+		} else {
+			open = append(open, r)
+		}
+	}
+	out := make([]Ranked, 0, 2*SpokenLimit)
+	for _, group := range [][]Ranked{open, cands} {
+		if len(group) > SpokenLimit {
+			group = group[:SpokenLimit]
+		}
+		out = append(out, group...)
+	}
+	return out
+}