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We define a block to be a rectangle with a height of $1$ and an integer-valued length. Let a castle be a configuration of stacked blocks.

Given a game grid that is $w$ units wide and $h$ units tall, a castle is generated according to the following rules:

  1. Blocks can be placed on top of other blocks as long as nothing sticks out past the edges or hangs out over open space.
  2. All blocks are aligned/snapped to the grid.
  3. Any two neighboring blocks on the same row have at least one unit of space between them.
  4. The bottom row is occupied by a block of length $w$.
  5. The maximum achieved height of the entire castle is exactly $h$.
  6. The castle is made from an even number of blocks.

The following is a sample castle for $w=8$ and $h=5$:

0502_castles.png

Let $F(w,h)$ represent the number of valid castles, given grid parameters $w$ and $h$.

For example, $F(4,2) = 10$, $F(13,10) = 3729050610636$, $F(10,13) = 37959702514$, and $F(100,100) \bmod 1\,000\,000\,007 = 841913936$.

Find $(F(10^{12},100) + F(10000,10000) + F(100,10^{12})) \bmod 1\,000\,000\,007$.

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