Finitely many hyperplanes separating $ x,y $ in a CAT(0) cube complex

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I'm having a great difficulty understanding a proof of a lemma from this paper:

http://www.math.hawaii.edu/~erik/papers/cat0-A.pdf

It's lemma 1.12. To make it shorter for anyone who'd like to take a look: we are considering $ X $ - a $ \text{CAT(0)} $ cube complex. The set $ \mathfrak{H}(x,y) $ is a set of hyperplanes which separace vertices $ x,y $.

The moment I'm lost is the sentence: ,,since $ \mathfrak{H}(x,y) $ is finite...''. I have no idea why it might / should be true.

I'd appreciate any form of hint / explanation