Legion-5 made up his mind and said, "If I can kill and eat my mother to pursue perfection, I can surely pretend to be meek while enjoying the finest luxury in the realm of high heaven."
Then he said to the other clones with righteousness, "I am doing this for Legion. If not for Legion, I will not condone this restriction of my freedom."
"Right." They snickered. "Sure you are."
"More like you're greedy."
He ignored the biased condemnation of his willingness to sacrifice his freedom and opened the bottle. Then he took out a bead of life essence. He did so by turning the bottle a little over its cover. A small round heavy and translucent bead separated from the others and fell into the cover.
This could be done because each drop or bead of life essence is a separate entity. They are individual petals of the flowers of life trees. The fact that they are liquified doesn't mean that they have fused and mixed.
