a distinguished vertex $o_n$. The hull $B_r^\bullet(\bar{T}_n^{(1)})$ is well-defined when $\vec{d}(\rho_n, o_n) > r + 1$, otherwise we set it to be $\bar{T}_n^{(1)}$.
Lemma 8.5. There exists a constant $\bar{c} > 0$ such that, for every $n,r,p \ge 1$ and every $\Delta \in C_{1,r}$ with top boundary half-length $p$, such that $n > N(\Delta) + p$,
Proof. The proof of this lemma is very similar to that of [13, Lemma 22], with the additional subtlety that, like for Lemma 5.3, we do not start with explicit expressions for probabilities in finite triangulations, as shown in (8.3).
Fix $r \ge 1$ and $\Delta \in C_{1,r}$ with top boundary half-length $p$. We will write $V$ for $#V(\Delta)$ to simplify notation. Using (5.4) and the fact that $\mathcal{T}_\infty^{(1)}$ is the local limit of $\mathcal{T}_n^{(1)}$, we have
On the other hand, (5.3) gives the formula
where the last inequality is given by Euler's formula and the fact that at most $p$ vertices of $\partial^*\Delta$ are identified together in $\mathcal{T}_n^{(1)}$. (We still need $n > N + p$ since $\mathcal{T}_n^{(1)} \setminus \Delta$ will have $n - N - p$ inner vertices if none of these identifications occur.)
Then, using the bounds of (4.5) and the asymptotics of (4.3), we get that
for some constant $c^*$. Comparing the last bound with (8.2) gives the desired result. $\square$
Proof of Proposition 8.4. Fix $\varepsilon > 0$ and $\nu > 0$. Its suffices to prove that, for all $n$ sufficiently large, we have
Indeed, as detailed in Proposition 4.1, the sequence $n^{-1/4}\vec{d}(\rho_n, o_n)$ is bounded in probability, so that the statement of the proposition will follow from (8.5). Note that, in [13], the equivalent tightness is obtained as a consequence of the convergence of usual planar triangulations to the Brownian map: in our case, we had to use the weaker result of Theorem 2.12, as we obviously do not have a convergence at the level of maps yet.
To obtain (8.5), we want to transfer the results of Proposition 8.3 on the UIPET to large finite triangulations. This necessitates the bounds of Lemma 8.5, together with the statement of Proposition 4.2 on the profile of distances in large finite triangulations (which is once again a consequence of Theorem 2.12, as we cannot rely on a convergence to the Brownian map).
We omit the details of the proof of (8.5), as they can be straightforwardly adapted from the equivalent statement in the proof of Proposition 21 in [13], replacing once again $d_{gr}$ by $\vec{d}$, and $d_{fpp}$ by $d$. $\square$