feat: branch node encoding with u16 prefix/separator lengths

[gabriele-0201]

Encode the separator and prefix length as u16

This solves the remote possibility of a branch node being encoded incorrectly because the separators do not have a shared prefix and one of them ends with a 1

[gabriele-0201]

• #378 👈
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