 How did Grannie Annie avoid the actions of Antlers Park?
What with red-spot fever, talking cockatoos and flagpole trees, I was running in circles—especially since Grannie became twins every now and then. Grannie Annie strode in the lead, her absurd long-skirted black dress looking as out of place in this desert as the trees. Grannie Annie was the original research digger-upper, and when she laid the setting of a yarn on a star of the sixth magnitude, only a transportation-velocity of less than light could prevent her from visiting her "stage" in person. Antlers Park flicked the ash from his cheroot and shrugged. And then all at once Grannie stopped again, this time at the top of a high ridge.
 She pretended to contract the plague.
 She pretended to contract the plague.  She distracted him by sharing a new plot for her novel.  She used a cockatoo image to distract him.  She turned his own heat gun on him