Could be. I don't know what California's like, but there's a guy named Bowser who's got a hit out on ninja. Of my world, at least.

[If he's a Rocket, he already would know she's a target; if he's just an innocent new arrival, no harm warning him.]

Do you guys wear anything like this? [She reaches behind her and draws a strip of cloth with a metal plate across the middle, fingers strategically placed so he can't see the leaf mark in the middle.]