Existence of a certain nodal quartic curve

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I am reading this (https://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~claire.voisin/Articlesweb/Univcodim2invent.pdf) paper of Voisin, but I am having some trouble with the proof of Sublemma 2.8 (it might be something very simple but I don't exactly see it). Namely, let $S$ be a $k\leq 7$ nodal quartic surface in $\mathbb{P}^3$ and let $Z$ be the set of nodes. Let $\pi:\tilde{S}\longrightarrow S$ be the blowup of $S$ along $Z$. Then one gets that the "principalized" linear series $|\pi^\ast I_Z(4)|$ is nef and big on $\tilde{S}$ (here $I_Z\subset O_S$ is the ideal sheaf of theset $Z$). From here, how can one deduce that there exists an irreducible quartic curve on $S$ which is nodal at $Z$? Any help is appreciated!