diff --git a/cmd/mavend/voicewire.go b/cmd/mavend/voicewire.go
index f4fd334..8bf2361 100644
--- a/cmd/mavend/voicewire.go
+++ b/cmd/mavend/voicewire.go
@@ -379,6 +379,9 @@ func buildRouter(emb router.Embedder, acts router.ActMatcher, threshold float64,
 	// question and must keep reaching replySystem, while "что у меня сегодня"
 	// is an agenda question and must not.
 	grammars = append(grammars, router.AgendaQueryGrammars()...)
+	// After the agenda rules: "расскажи, что у меня сегодня" is an agenda
+	// question first and a narrative request second (Vikunja #498).
+	grammars = append(grammars, router.NarrativeQueryGrammars()...)
 	grammars = append(grammars, router.ReminderGrammar())
 	return router.New(router.Config{
 		Grammars:   grammars,
diff --git a/internal/router/agenda_test.go b/internal/router/agenda_test.go
index 4ef3407..7ee8420 100644
--- a/internal/router/agenda_test.go
+++ b/internal/router/agenda_test.go
@@ -75,3 +75,40 @@ func TestAgendaGrammarSparesStatements(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+// The two shapes that carried no question mark and no interrogative, so the
+// model saw them first and called them facts (Vikunja #498).
+func TestNarrativeGrammarsRouteToQuery(t *testing.T) {
+	r := agendaRouter(t)
+	r.grammars = append(r.grammars, NarrativeQueryGrammars()...)
+	for _, u := range []string{
+		"что дальше?",
+		"и что там дальше",
+		"what's next?",
+		"расскажи про битву при Ватерлоо",
+		"объясни как работает дизель",
+		"опиши Ватерлоо",
+	} {
+		d, err := r.Route(context.Background(), u, refNow())
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("%q: %v", u, err)
+		}
+		if d.Intent != IntentQuery || d.Stage != 0 {
+			t.Errorf("%q routed intent=%s stage=%d, want query at stage 0", u, d.Intent, d.Stage)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// A narrative verb next to a capture verb is him asking for a note. Stage 0
+// declines and the extractor gets its turn.
+func TestNarrativeGrammarLeavesCapturesAlone(t *testing.T) {
+	r := agendaRouter(t)
+	r.grammars = append(r.grammars, NarrativeQueryGrammars()...)
+	d, err := r.Route(context.Background(), "расскажи и запиши что я пил воду", refNow())
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if d.Stage == 0 && d.Intent == IntentQuery {
+		t.Errorf("stage 0 claimed a capture: %+v", d)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/router/eval/eval_test.go b/internal/router/eval/eval_test.go
index 9adf2c2..89dd17c 100644
--- a/internal/router/eval/eval_test.go
+++ b/internal/router/eval/eval_test.go
@@ -236,6 +236,7 @@ func newBaselineRouter(t *testing.T, emb router.Embedder, llmR *router.LLMRouter
 	// Same order as buildRouter (voicewire.go). The fixture is only worth
 	// anything while its grammar set is the daemon's grammar set.
 	grammars = append(grammars, router.AgendaQueryGrammars()...)
+	grammars = append(grammars, router.NarrativeQueryGrammars()...)
 	grammars = append(grammars, router.ReminderGrammar())
 	return router.New(router.Config{
 		Grammars:   grammars,
diff --git a/internal/router/eval/ru_routing_v1.json b/internal/router/eval/ru_routing_v1.json
index 6c765f0..2de1e25 100644
--- a/internal/router/eval/ru_routing_v1.json
+++ b/internal/router/eval/ru_routing_v1.json
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
     { "id": "ru-query-016", "utterance": "покажи давление за неделю", "lang": "ru", "intent": "query", "tags": ["hard", "imperative"], "note": "imperative form but a read — must not route to act" },
     { "id": "ru-query-017", "utterance": "чем я занимался в среду", "lang": "ru", "intent": "query", "tags": ["hard", "chat-shaped"] },
     { "id": "ru-query-018", "utterance": "хватает ли места под новые бэкапы", "lang": "ru", "intent": "query", "tags": ["homelab"] },
+    { "id": "ru-query-020", "utterance": "что дальше?", "lang": "ru", "intent": "query", "tags": ["agenda", "hard"], "note": "the rest of the day, with no interrogative the model can read as a question — it routed fact until a stage 0 rule claimed it (V-498)" },
+    { "id": "ru-query-021", "utterance": "расскажи про битву при Ватерлоо", "lang": "ru", "intent": "query", "tags": ["world", "hard"], "note": "a world question phrased as an instruction. It routed fact, and the fact gate had to catch the write (V-498)" },
     { "id": "en-query-001", "utterance": "did I take my vitamins today", "lang": "en", "intent": "query", "tags": ["fact-shaped"] },
     { "id": "en-query-002", "utterance": "how long since the last backup finished", "lang": "en", "intent": "query", "tags": ["temporal"] },
     { "id": "en-query-003", "utterance": "show me this week's weight", "lang": "en", "intent": "query", "tags": ["imperative"] },
diff --git a/internal/router/stage0.go b/internal/router/stage0.go
index 615a4fc..b02a3be 100644
--- a/internal/router/stage0.go
+++ b/internal/router/stage0.go
@@ -185,6 +185,73 @@ func AgendaQueryGrammars() []Grammar {
 	}
 }
 
+// NarrativeQueryGrammars — stage-0 grammars for the two question shapes that
+// carry no question mark and no interrogative, and so reached the resident
+// model with nothing deterministic in front of them (Vikunja #498).
+//
+// Both were routed IntentFact by the model. The fact gate catches the write and
+// re-runs the turn as a query, so nothing breaks today; what they cost is a full
+// model round trip to reach a decision two patterns can make offline, and a
+// wrong row on the routing fixture.
+//
+// Wired after the agenda grammars, which is where their overlap resolves:
+// "расскажи, что у меня сегодня" is claimed here as a query either way.
+func NarrativeQueryGrammars() []Grammar {
+	return []Grammar{
+		{
+			// "что дальше?" — the rest of the day. IsRestOfDayQuery already
+			// recognises it downstream in the query chain, but that runs after
+			// the routing decision, and the routing decision was fact.
+			Name:    "rest-of-day-query",
+			Pattern: regexp.MustCompile(`(?i)(^|\s)(что|чего)\s+(там\s+|потом\s+)?дальше(\s|[?!.]|$)|(^|\s)what'?s?\s+next(\s|[?!.]|$)`),
+			Build:   agendaQueryBuild,
+		},
+		{
+			// "расскажи про X" — a world question phrased as an instruction.
+			// The lexicon is narrativeRequests, already written for the
+			// question-shaped test in question.go.
+			//
+			// Anchored at the start: "запиши что мне рассказали" is a capture,
+			// and a narrative verb buried mid-utterance is not the shape.
+			Name:    "narrative-query",
+			Pattern: regexp.MustCompile(`(?i)^\s*(расскажи|объясни|опиши|перечисли|tell|explain|describe)(\s+(.*))?$`),
+			Build:   narrativeQueryBuild,
+		},
+	}
+}
+
+// entertainmentNouns — what "расскажи" asks for when it is not asking for
+// knowledge. "расскажи анекдот про программистов" is chat: he wants her to make
+// something up, which is the one case where inventing is the right answer
+// (fixture ru-chat-003).
+var entertainmentNouns = []string{
+	"анекдот", "анекдоты", "шутку", "шутки", "историю", "сказку", "сказки",
+	"joke", "jokes", "story",
+}
+
+// narrativeQueryBuild — the narrative shape is a query unless he also said one
+// of the capture verbs, or asked for entertainment. "расскажи и запиши" is him
+// asking for a note, and stage 0 must not take either off the cascade.
+func narrativeQueryBuild(m []string) (Decision, bool) {
+	rest := ""
+	if len(m) > 3 {
+		rest = m[3]
+	}
+	for _, t := range planTokens(rest) {
+		for _, v := range captureVerbs {
+			if t == v {
+				return Decision{}, false
+			}
+		}
+		for _, v := range entertainmentNouns {
+			if t == v {
+				return Decision{}, false
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return agendaQueryBuild(m)
+}
+
 // agendaQueryBuild — shared Build for the agenda grammars. Confidence 1.0 on
 // the intent only: the utterance travels intact and the query chain's own
 // matchers decide the rest.