In hindsight, Reed got really lucky that he was able to hide his daughter away for as long as he did without anyone noticing. By the time her parents died, she was perfectly used to concealing both her appearance and her powers.
Flint thought his niece was an oddball for wearing her glamour at home but didn't think much of it. Then he noticed she had some very strange wings a few decades later when she needed help applying a poultice on a tear.
His suspicions grew that there was something off about her but they weren't confirmed until Flora came running up to him excitedly one day hollering, "Daddy! Daddy! Ruby made me a necklace, see?"
It was a gaudy thing consisting of five large tear-shaped sapphires of differing sizes on a thin silver chain and it changed everything. Ruby had panicked when Flint and Lily came outside to confront her about it, demanding to know where she got it.
