When the attacking king has no shelter near its pawn, the defender draws by checking forever, choosing squares that cannot be answered with a cross-check or a queen trade.
White is a pawn up with the pawn on the seventh and the queen ready to help; yet the game is a draw because Black starts checking and never has to stop. The white king on d8 stands in front of its pawn with no pawn cover against diagonal and side checks, and every square it can run to is reachable by the black queen with another check.